At Idlewild Books, you’ll find travel guides shelved alongside fiction and nonfiction (both classic and contemporary), and a nicely curated collection of cookbooks as well. Owner David Del Vecchio, formerly with the U.N., also hosts lively events related to travel, humanitarian affairs, and literature in translation and puts together “destination kits” for travelers.

If there are holes in your cookbook collection, though, you need Bonnie Slotnick.

Even when I feel like I could not eat one more thing, my former boss Ruth Reichl makes me hungry.